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ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING AND ASSESSMENT ACT 1979 - SECT 9.43

Self-incriminatory information and use of information

9.43 Self-incriminatory information and use of information

(cf previous s 122F)

(1) Information must be supplied by a person in connection with a report of monitoring or an environmental audit, and this Division applies to any such information that is supplied, whether or not the information might incriminate the person.
(2) Any information in monitoring data or in an audit report or other documentation supplied to the Minister in connection with an environmental audit may be taken into consideration by the Minister and used for the purposes of this Act.
(3) Without limiting the above, any such information--
(a) is admissible in evidence in any prosecution of the proponent of an approved project for any offence (whether under this Act or otherwise), and
(b) may be disclosed by the Minister by publishing it in such manner as the Minister considers appropriate.



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